Category: NaNoWriMo 2011

I am taking the plunge this year and participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). For the month of November, I will work every day on my novel, “Goethe’s Theory of Color,” about a University of Chicago philosophy professor who must return home to Taos, NM, after having run away 15 years ago.

Here is my project plan. I have a script of 100 pages that is not going anywhere in the screenwriting contests. All along I have felt this script was really a novel in hiding. I wrote the first two scenes in narrative and it flowed. I thought: How many scripts are purchased and made from unknown screenwriters? How many are made from unknown novelists?

So each day, I will take 2 pages from my script (too short for a full-length screenplay anyway) and rewrite it as 4 pages of narrative, starting at midnight tonight with my local NaNoWriMos. The meetup is happening at Denny’s on Cerrillos Road—no Santa Fe style writer’s hangout for us!

I have also set up a page where you can donate to the nonprofit The Office of Letters and Light which puts on this program and more for kids and adults writing stories.You can donate to their nonprofit as my sponsor here. Your donation will encourage me to keep going!

At the end of it all, I hope to publish “Goethe’s Theory of Color” as a Kindle eBook.